The Images section features photographs, postcards, and different types of artwork, as well as reproductions of images that appeared in newspapers, magazines, and other publications. These images all reflect the Carlisle Indian School students, facilities, and staff. Images available here are drawn from files housed at the U. S. National Archives, from collections of Carlisle Indian School materials housed at various archival repositories, and from a variety of published sources. Visitors to this website are also invited to share copies of photographs from their own personal and family collections; please contact us if you have images you would like to contribute.
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Studio portrait of Samuel Six Killer, George Scott, and George Vallier. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of David Hodgson (standing) and Frank Shane (seated). Hodgson is wearing a school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
![Twenty Crow students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73920.jpg?itok=M7UdM07p "Twenty Crow students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of sixteen male students and four female students, all wearing school uniforms. Previous cataloging interprets the caption for this image, scratched into the plate, as saying they are from the Crow nation.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twelve male Sioux students [version 1], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73834.jpg?itok=_VpPBAco "Twelve male Sioux students [version 1], c.1890")
Studio portrait of twelve male students. The caption identifies them as being from the Pine Ridge Reservation. The caption for the Cumberland County Historicial Society's copy says they are "Pine Ridge Sioux" and identifies them as:
Front row, seated: Thomas Black Bear, Alexander Man Above, Charles Smith, Andrew Beard, Herbert Good Boy, Robert Horse, and Phillip White.
Back row, standing: Samuel Dion, James One Star, Howard Slow Bull, Charles Brave, and Willis Black Bear.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of James One Star wearing school uniform and holding a hat.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Robert Matthews [version 2], c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_054c.jpg?itok=HIWNEmk_ "Robert Matthews [version 2], c.1890")
Studio portrait of Robert Matthews.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Henry Old Eagle (standing at left) and Louis Crow on Head (seated at right), both wearing school uniforms and holding hats.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Invincible Society [version 1], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_image/public/image-photo/NAA_73466.jpg?itok=Ewol2B9X "Invincible Society [version 1], 1890")
Portrait of a large group of male students, some holding instruments, with a white man in the center of the bottom row. They are posed on the front steps of a building on the school grounds. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that this is the student group Invincible Society, 1890.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of a young man wearing school uniform. The handwritten caption reads something like "Odella," and so we believe it is either Odell La Fleur (Colville Nation) or Odellah Ahtley (Apache Nation).
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Knox Nostlin wearing school uniform.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student wearing school uniform.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of an unidentified male student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Susan Summers and Alice Sheffield, both probably wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of an unidentified female student.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Samuel Noble, Francis Garcia, Paul Good Bear (far right). Two are wearing school uniforms.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of Ralph Naltuey and Lucius Bird, both holding hats.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students, one holding a circular fan.
Format: Glass Plate Negative
Repository: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms.
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of two unidentified female students wearing school uniforms. A handwritten caption identifies them as "Apache girls."
Format: Photographic Print, B&W
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society